The Gospel According to Mark

(World English Bible Translation)

 

1:1The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 1:2As it is written in the prophets,

 "Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
      Who will prepare your way before you.

 1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
      'Make ready the way of the Lord!
      Make his paths straight!'"

1:4John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. 1:5All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. 1:6John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey. 1:7He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. 1:8I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

1:9It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 1:10Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 1:11A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

1:12Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. 1:13He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels ministered to him.

1:14Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, 1:15and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the gospel."

1:16Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen. 1:17Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men."

1:18Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. 1:19Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. 1:20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. 1:21They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 1:22They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 1:23Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 1:24saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"

1:25Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

1:26The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 1:27They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!" 1:28The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

1:29Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 1:30Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 1:31He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them. 1:32At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. 1:33All the city was gathered together at the door. 1:34He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

1:35Early in the night, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed. 1:36Simon and those who were with him followed after him; 1:37and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."

1:38He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, for to this end I came forth." 1:39He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.

1:40There came to him a leper, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

1:41Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." 1:42When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. 1:43He strictly charged him, and immediately sent him out, 1:44and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

1:45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

2:1When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. 2:2Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. 2:3Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. 2:4When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. 2:5Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."

2:6But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 2:7"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

2:8Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 2:9Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' 2:10But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" - he said to the paralytic - 2:11"I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."

2:12He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

2:13He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. 2:14As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the place of toll, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

2:15It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. 2:16The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

2:18John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

2:19Jesus said to them, "Can the sons of the bride chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast. 2:20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day. 2:21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. 2:22No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

2:23It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. 2:24The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

2:25He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry - he, and they who were with him? 2:26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" 2:27He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 2:28Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

3:1He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 3:2They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 3:3He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 3:4He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent. 3:5When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. 3:6The Pharisees went out, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

3:7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 3:8from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. 3:9He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. 3:10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. 3:11The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" 3:12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

3:13He went up into the mountain, and called to himself whom he wanted, and they went to him. 3:14He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 3:15and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 3:16Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; 3:17James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and them he surnamed Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; 3:18Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; 3:19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

He came into a house. 3:20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 3:21When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." 3:22The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

3:23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 3:24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 3:25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 3:26If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 3:27But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house. 3:28Most assuredly I tell you, all their sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; 3:29but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" 3:30- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

3:31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. 3:32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."

3:33He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 3:34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 3:35For whoever may do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

4:1Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. 4:2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, 4:3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, 4:4and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. 4:5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 4:6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 4:7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 4:8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."4:9He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

4:10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 4:11He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 4:12that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

4:13He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 4:14The farmer sows the word. 4:15These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 4:16These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 4:17They have no root in themselves, but endure for a while, then, when oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 4:18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 4:19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 4:20These are those who were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

4:21He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand? 4:22For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. 4:23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

4:24He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. 4:25For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."

4:26He said, "So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 4:27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. 4:28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 4:29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

4:30He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or by what parable will we compare it? 4:31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, 4:32yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

4:33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 4:34Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.

4:35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." 4:36Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. 4:37There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. 4:38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

4:39He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 4:40He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"

4:41They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

5:1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 5:2When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 5:3who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, 5:4because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. 5:5Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. 5:6When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, 5:7and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me." 5:8For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

5:9He asked him, "What is your name?"

He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." 5:10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 5:11Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. 5:12All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

5:13At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea. 5:14Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

The people came to see what it was that had happened. 5:15They came to Jesus, and saw him who was possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. 5:16Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. 5:17They began to beg him to depart from their borders.

5:18As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 5:19He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them how the Lord has done great things for you, and how he had mercy on you."

5:20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

5:21When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. 5:22Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, 5:23and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

5:24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. 5:25A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, 5:26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, 5:27having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. 5:28For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." 5:29Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her plague.

5:30Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

5:31His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

5:32He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 5:33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

5:34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."

5:35While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"

5:36But Jesus, not heeding the word spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." 5:37He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. 5:38He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. 5:39When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."

5:40They laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. 5:41Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Young lady, I tell you, get up." 5:42Immediately the young lady rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. 5:43He charged them much that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.

6:1He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. 6:2When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands? 6:3Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended by him.

6:4Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house." 6:5He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk, and healed them. 6:6He marveled because of their unbelief.

He went around the villages teaching. 6:7He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 6:8He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, 6:9but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. 6:10He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. 6:11Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"

6:12They went out and preached that people should repent. 6:13They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. 6:14King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers work in him." 6:15But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets." 6:16But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." 6:17For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her. 6:18For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't, 6:20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

6:21When a convenient day had come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee; 6:22and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those reclining with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." 6:23He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."

6:24She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?"

She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

6:25She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."

6:26The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her. 6:27Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, 6:28and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

6:29When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

6:30The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. 6:31He said to them, "You come apart into a desert place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 6:32They went away in the boat to a desert place by themselves. 6:33They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him. 6:34Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. 6:35When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is a desert, and it is late in the day. 6:36Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

6:37But he answered them, "You give them something to eat."

They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

6:38He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see."

When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."

6:39He commanded those that all should sit down by companies on the green grass. 6:40They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. 6:41He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all. 6:42They all ate, and were filled. 6:43They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish. 6:44Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.

6:45Immediately he made his disciples enter into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away. 6:46After he had taken leave of them, he departed into the mountain to pray.

6:47When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and he was alone on the land. 6:48Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them; and about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them, 6:49but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; 6:50for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid." 6:51He went up to them into the boat; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled; 6:52for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

6:53When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. 6:54When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him, 6:55and ran around that whole region, and began to carry around those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was. 6:56Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

7:1Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. 7:2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. 7:3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. 7:4They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) 7:5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

7:6He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

 'This people honors me with their lips,
      But their heart is far from me.

 7:7But in vain do they worship me,
      Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

7:8"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men - the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." 7:9He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 7:10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 7:11But you say, 'If a man will tell his father or his mother, "Whatever you might have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"' 7:12and you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 7:13making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

7:14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. 7:15There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. 7:16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

7:17When he had entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. 7:18He said to them, "Are you so without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him, 7:19because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his belly, and into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?" 7:20He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 7:23All these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man."

7:24From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and wanted no one to know it, but he couldn't escape detection. 7:25For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. 7:26Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. 7:27But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

7:28But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. For even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

7:29He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

7:30She went away to her house, and found the child laying on the bed, with the demon gone out.

7:31Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. 7:32They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. 7:33He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. 7:34Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!" 7:35Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke clearly. 7:36He charged them that they should tell no one, but the more he charged them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. 7:37They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"

8:1In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them, 8:2"I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. 8:3If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way."

8:4His disciples answered him, "From where will one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place?"

8:5He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"

They said, "Seven."

8:6He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude. 8:7They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. 8:8They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over. 8:9Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.

8:10Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha. 8:11The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking a sign from heaven from him, and tempting him. 8:12He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most assuredly I tell you, there will no sign be given to this generation."

8:13He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side. 8:14They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them. 8:15He charged them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

8:16They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread."

8:17Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? 8:18Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember? 8:19When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"

They told him, "Twelve."

8:20"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"

They told him, "Seven."

8:21He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

8:22He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him. 8:23He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

8:24He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees walking."

8:25Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. 8:26He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."

8:27Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"

8:28They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others: Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."

8:29He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

Peter answered, "You are the Christ."

8:30He charged them that they should tell no one about him. 8:31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 8:32He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. 8:33But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."

8:34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. 8:36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? 8:37For what should a man give in exchange for his life? 8:38For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

9:1He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death, until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."

9:2After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. 9:3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 9:4Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

9:5Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 9:6For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.

9:7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

9:8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.

9:9As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen again from the dead. 9:10They kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean.

9:11They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

9:12He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? 9:13But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

9:14Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. 9:15Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him. 9:16He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"

9:17One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; 9:18and wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."

9:19He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him to me."

9:20They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

9:21He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?"

He said, "From childhood. 9:22Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."

9:23Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

9:24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"

9:25When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter no more into him!"

9:26Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead." 9:27But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

9:28When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?" 9:29He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."

9:30They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know it. 9:31For he taught his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."

9:32But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

9:33He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"

9:34But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

9:35He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." 9:36He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 9:37"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

9:38John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."

9:39But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. 9:40For whoever is not against us is on our side. 9:41For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most assuredly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. 9:42Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, 9:44'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 9:45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched - 9:46'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 9:47If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 9:48'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 9:49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

10:1He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he taught them again. 10:2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

10:3He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

10:4They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

10:5But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. 10:6But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female. 10:7For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, 10:8and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 10:9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

10:10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 10:11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 10:12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

10:13They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. 10:14But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for to such belong the Kingdom of God. 10:15Most assuredly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter therein." 10:16He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

10:17As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, kneeled to him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

10:18Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one - God. 10:19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"

10:20He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

10:21Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

10:22But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. 10:23Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"

10:24The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! 10:25It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

10:26They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

10:27Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

10:28Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."

10:29Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake, 10:30but he will receive one hundred times now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. 10:31But many who are first will be last; and the last first."

10:32They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. 10:33"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. 10:34They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."

10:35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

10:36He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

10:37They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."

10:38But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

10:39They said to him, "We are able."

Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; 10:40but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."

10:41When the ten heard it, they began to be moved with indignation towards James and John.

10:42Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 10:43But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. 10:44Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be servant of all. 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

10:46They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. 10:47When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" 10:48Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out the more a great deal, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

10:49Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him."

They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"

10:50He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

10:51Jesus answered him, "What do you want me to do for you?"

The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."

10:52Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

11:1When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 11:2and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him. 11:3If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."

11:4They went away, and found a colt tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. 11:5Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" 11:6They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.

11:7They brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on him, and Jesus sat on him. 11:8Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. 11:9Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 11:10Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

11:11Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

11:12The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. 11:13Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 11:14Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.

11:15They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves. 11:16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. 11:17He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"

11:18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

11:19When evening came, he went out of the city. 11:20As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. 11:21Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."

11:22Jesus answering said to them, "Have faith in God. 11:23For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says happens; he shall have whatever he says. 11:24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. 11:25Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. 11:26But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions."

11:27They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him, 11:28and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"

11:29Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 11:30The baptism of John - was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

11:31They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 11:32If we should say, 'From men'"-they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. 11:33They answered Jesus, "We don't know."

Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."

12:1He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, set a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. 12:2When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. 12:3They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. 12:4Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. 12:5Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. 12:6Therefore he had yet one, a beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 12:7But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 12:8They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. 12:9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. 12:10Haven't you even read this Scripture:

 'The stone which the builders rejected,
      The same was made the head of the corner.

 12:11This was from the Lord,
      It is marvelous in our eyes'?"

12:12They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away. 12:13They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might catch him in words. 12:14When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 12:15Shall we give, or shall we not give?"

But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."

12:16They brought it.

He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"

They said to him, "Caesar's."

12:17Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

They marveled greatly at him.

12:18There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying, 12:19"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.' 12:20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. 12:21The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; 12:22and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. 12:23In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

12:24Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? 12:25